Regression Discontinuity
Jumpy or Kinky? Regression Discontinuity without the Discontinuity
... Let T be a binary indicator for some treatment such as participation in a social program or repeating a grade (grade retention) in school, let Y be some associated outcome of interest such as employment or academic ...
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The Effects of School Term Length on Education and Earnings: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
... This paper examines the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in ...
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Who benefits from reducing the cost of formality? Quantile regression discontinuity analysis
... The regression discontinuity literature (see Hahn et ...the discontinuity that the introduction of SIMPLES introduces in the factors determining formality can be exploited to provide unbiased ...
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Who benefits from reducing the cost of formality? Quantile regression discontinuity analysis
... the regression discontinu- ity approach and the quantile regression ...the regression discontinu- ity design and they propose an uniformly consistent estimator for the potential outcome distributions ...
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Estimating the gender penalty in House of Representative elections using a regression discontinuity design
... While the number of female candidates running for office in U.S. House of Representative elections has increased considerably since the 1980s, women continue to account for about only 20% of House members. Whether this ...
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Unintended Consequences of Childcare Regulation in Chile: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
... the discontinuity given by Chilean regulation to compare wages of workers just above and just below the threshold given the regulation using a regression discontinuity (RD) design (Hahn, Todd and van ...
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Bayesian regression discontinuity designs: Incorporating clinical knowledge in the causal analysis of primary care data.
... The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a quasi-experimental design that estimates the causal effects of a treatment by exploiting naturally occurring treatment ...
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Incumbent effects and partisan alignment in local elections : a regression discontinuity analysis using Italian data
... use regression discontinuity design to overcome a fundamental identi…cation problem: the potential correlation between …scal choices and the ideological characteristics of its ...
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Step Up the Heat: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Effect of Home Heating Subsidy on Energy Expenditure
... a regression discontinuity design quasi-experimental framework, identification for the causal treatment effect of energy subsidy is achieved by exploiting exogenous variations generated from the subsidy ...
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Peer Effects and Scholastic Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Estimates Using the Age Sorting Criterion in the Composition of Classrooms
... The school performance of students immediately to the left of the 144 months mark provides a valid counterfactual for students to the right of this limit who were allocated to the treatment (or older classes), since the ...
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Absorptive capacity and the growth and investment effects of regional transfers : a regression discontinuity design with heterogeneous treatment effects
... transfers. Eligibility is determined in pre-specified years prior to a programming period. The regional entities which may claim eligibility are NUTS2 regions as described above. If the 75%-rule were strictly followed by ...
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Your Retirement and My Health Behaviour: Evidence on Retirement Externalities from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
... a regression discontinuity design that explores discon- tinuities in retirement created by official retirement age thresholds of countries, suggests that indeed retirement of one partner affects health ...
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Cultural Biases in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach
... the discontinuity at the Swiss language border at identical actual set of policies and institutions to analyze the causal effect of culture on the choice of how public services are ...ture, Regression ...
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Efficient estimation in regression discontinuity designs via asymmetric kernels
... a Regression Discontinuity design with electoral share at time t acting as the running variable and 50% as the threshold at which potential discontinuities should take ...
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Grades, gender, and encouragement: A regression discontinuity analysis
... similar. Therefore, if the only difference between students who are close to either side of the threshold is that one set received an A and the other did not, then we can attribute a causal role to receiving the A in ...
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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity
... standard regression discontinuity framework (Imbens & Lemieux, 2008; Lee & Lemieux, 2010) to estimate the effects of the abolishment of conscription on educational attainment as well as future ...
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The effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings: a regression-discontinuity approach
... We compare college applicants whose age differences at school entry are exogenously determined by whether they were born on December 31 or on January 1, along with the minimum-age rule enforced by primary schools in ...
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Compulsory tutorial programmes and performance in undergraduate microeconomics: A regression discontinuity design
... Compulsory tutorial programmes and performance in undergraduate microeconomics: A regression discontinuity design Schöer, Volker and Shepherd, Debra African Micro-Economic Research Unit [r] ...
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Labor Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
... valid regression discontinuity approach to a situation in which a treatment is based on a test score and individuals can influence the test score by retaking the ...
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The impact of free access to swimming pools on children's participation in swimming:A comparative regression discontinuity study
... This study shows that providing free access to swimming facilities to children living in a deprived local authority can increase swimming participation and may help promote physical acti[r] ...
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